When Speakers of English Add "Ed" to a Verb to Indicate

question 21

Multiple Choice

When speakers of English add "ed" to a verb to indicate past tense, they are applying a

• A)morphological marker.
• B)dialectical marker.
• C)phoneme.
• D)prefix.

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Definitions:

Alpha

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine the significance level at which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Non-directional Hypothesis

A hypothesis that does not predict the specific direction of the difference or relationship, only that one exists.

T-statistic

A statistic calculated from sample data used to assess the plausibility of the null hypothesis in t-tests.

Standard Error

The typical deviation found in the distribution of sample statistics, often referring to the mean.